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Don't Stand So Close To Me Lyrics

Young teacher the subject of schoolgirl fantasy
She wants him so badly knows what she wants to be
Inside her there's longing
This girl's an open page
Book marking she's so close now
This girl is half his age

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Her friends are so jealous
You know how bad girls get
Sometimes it not so easy
To be the teacher's pet
Temptation, frustration
So bad it makes him cry
Wet bus stop she's waiting
His car is warm and dry

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Loose talk in the classroom
To hurt they try and try
Strong words in the staffroom
The accusations fly
It's no use he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like that old man in that book by Nabakov

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

{faded quite a lot by now}

Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand
Don't stand so
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omg. i never read the lyrics to this song; I only knew the chorus. & i just realized what song i've been singing around my p.e teacher ! ekk no wonder he looks at me kinda weird sometimes. hahaha

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I also think he wants to save him from himself. Like the man in 'Lolita', he knows if he keeps getting tempted he might not be able to stop himself. Even if he wasn't a teacher he knows it'd still be wrong, so he has to repeat the chorus line over and over and over again, pleading for her to keep away from him, for his own sanity.

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It's not about anything that's happened but the tension of desire and waht can't be. Girls at the school where he works fancy him for being youing and handsome and such, so the rumours fly fast when he takes on a protegé [teacher's pet] as they work out of class hours, but although the rumours are unfounded, he finds himself attracted because while she's so young, she's obviously intelligent and interesting. He can;'t show any concern for her because of social politics, and he wishes she'd stop innocently being near him for fear it will make the other girls hurt her and him loose his job.

Just a quick note on Lolita- while it is set in America, Vladamir Nabokov was indeed Russian. The allusion is a bit of a spoiler, but to put is quickly, the narrator loved Lolita from afar for a great deal of their time together, even after consumation as initiated on her part.

I adore this song, for less-than-lovely reasons.

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This song is about a fart "Don't stand so close to me"

are you in seventh grade?

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Like MayorMenley, I relate to it. I fancied one of my teachers for three years, but obviously realised nothing could happen. It's not about a girl being a slut, it's about the pain of forbidden love, and when you're in the situation, it's extremely easy to relate to.

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Just listening to it now... I mean, the song is pretty self-explanatory, but just to add to what everyone else has been saying, I don't think the teacher and student have actually DONE anything. It's pretty obvious that they both want each other, and it's actually gotten to the stage where the teacher is crying with frustration. This implies to me that he is holding back, and well, the first verse basically says that the girl wants him...

This is an incredible song, and it obviously hits home with alot of people, myself included.... the verses could almost be the story of my life for the past months. I just hope people will hear this and think about things instead of just pointing the finger and going 'oh he's a pervert, she's a slut'

Things are more complicated than that.

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the lyrics indicate that they both know that it would be wrong for them to be together, but they can't resist the allure of 'forbidden love'

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well its really about forbidden fruit, you always want what you can't have. and the more you see it dangling in front of you the more you want. its just pasion

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I can really relate to this song. I fell totally in love with one of my teachers last year and just recently he seems to be returning my feelings. I mean, I don't know for sure but that's the way it seems.

Anyway, why is the chorus 'Don't stand so close to me'? Which one of the two of them in supposed to be saying that and why? Surely if they had feelings for each other, they would WANT to be close, even if it was killing them. That's the way I feel anyway.

I think the line "don't stand so close to me" is referring to the male teacher attempting to remove himself from the temptation. I don't see anything in the lyrics to indicate that the girl is trying to resist it.

In fact, the lyrics "She wants him so badly knows what she wants to be/Inside her there's longing/This girl's an open page" and "Her friends are so jealous/You know how bad girls get" seem to imply that the girl is trying to encourage a relationship and maybe even purposefully tempting him.

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This song is really clever, i think it's brave of sting to aprouch a subject like this. i think he has compassion for both characters in it - he's not saying the girl is a slut for loving her teacher, and he isn't saying the guy is a pervert. infact if anything, he's giving the guy cudos. the imagary of the teacher seeing the girl out in the rain at the bus stop, having to stop himself from offering her a ride - it's those details that really give this music life. This is just an amazing song, about sexuality and like people above me have said - forbidden fruit.